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How to change home page in Google Chrome

July 13, 2015

Homepage (or start) – a first page that opens when you launch the browser. It is in all browsers, including Google Chrome. Used for convenience and quick access to sites. Many Internet users are by default set search engines Google or Yahoo. Some of them – their mailboxes.

But it happens that some programs during the installation change the home page, and then when you open browser there is start another search engine or another site.

Also to change the page can cause viruses and other malicious software on your computer.

In this article, I want to help people who do not know how to make, set, or remove the home page in Google Chrome.

How to set main page in Google Chrome

To set the home (main) page in Google Chrome, you should go to your browser settings.

You can do this by enter in the address bar: chrome://settings/

Or by clicking on the button as shown in the screenshot below:

In the category “On Startup” will be 3 points:

Open the New Tab page – visual bookmarks to the most frequently visited sites. Check the box next to the item, when you start the browser, you’ll see the following picture (enabled by default):

Continue where you left off – if the browser operation was completed incorrectly, then it will restore the same pages.
It is also very convenient if you did not finish read any material and you want to explore it the next day.

Open a specific page or set of pages – here you can set any startup pages that you want to see when you open Google Chrome. The main thing – do not overdo it, because at the same time opening of a large number of tabs can slow down the browser and computer.

How to make home page button in Google Chrome

Just below in GC settings there is an item “Appearance”. There you can choose to display a button “Home”. Make it active in the toolbar (on the left of the address bar) button will appear.

By default the home page is a Quick access to the most visited sites. This can be changed.

These uncomplicated actions can easily make configure the home page in the Google Chrome browser.